Quotes About Determination

I feel like I can play with any team. Whatever team that is, I feel like I can make an instant impact.

That's Quentin. He's an absolute master of his own fate. If he agrees with you, he'll change his mind instantly. If he thinks that he's right, there's no way you can get him to change his mind.

I never entered the industry with hopes of making it big instantly.

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

I am so proud to be a Philadelphian. I believe there's a different drive and hustle that's instilled in us.

I can't turn my aggression off and I can't turn it on; it's just instilled in me and that's how I play.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

When 'Mohenjo Daro' came to me, I decided to go by my gut instincts. If something big comes up, you need to give it that time and effort.

I just feel like it's believing in your instincts or believing in yourself to do something crazy. That's why it's important to believe in yourself and trust yourself.

I am a very driven and hardworking person, and I am independent, and I feel that I have really good instincts.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in our history.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

My mother has been very instrumental in shaping up my career. Whatever I am today is because of her. Because I didn't have a father, she played both the roles of a mother and a father in my life.